Lead Developer Jobs in the West Midlands

Lead Developer
England > West Midlands

The median Lead Developer salary in the West Midlands is £67,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 9 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 182 160 234
Rank change year-on-year -22 +74 -32
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Developer 12 96 32
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.27% 1.30% 0.50%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.30% 1.38% 0.55%
Number of salaries quoted 10 89 28
10th Percentile £46,925 £47,000 £45,000
25th Percentile £49,313 £52,539 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% +8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £71,875 £80,000 £80,625
England median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year -3.45% -9.38% +3.23%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
West Midlands

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the West Midlands. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the West Midlands with a recognized job title 3,985 6,938 5,767
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.65% 94.14% 90.25%
Number of salaries quoted 1,792 5,218 3,278
10th Percentile £28,822 £26,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £35,000 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £78,750
England median annual salary £57,500 £53,500 £60,800
% change year-on-year +7.48% -12.01% +1.33%

Lead Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings that featured Lead Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Lead Developer in the West Midlands

Lead Developer
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Lead Developer in the West Midlands.

Salary trend for Lead Developer in the West Midlands

Lead Developer
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Lead Developer in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 9 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Lead Developer in the West Midlands

Lead Developer
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Lead Developer within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 9 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Birmingham -14 10 £67,500 +12.50% 7
Solihull - 2 £62,500 -
Coventry -1 1 £47,500 -
Lead Developer
England

Lead Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands

For the 6 months to 9 May 2025, Lead Developer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the West Midlands region featuring Lead Developer in the job title.

1 6 (50.00%) Games
1 6 (50.00%) Agile
1 6 (50.00%) TDD
1 6 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 5 (41.67%) Software Engineering
3 4 (33.33%) Unit Testing
3 4 (33.33%) QA
3 4 (33.33%) AWS
3 4 (33.33%) PHP
3 4 (33.33%) E-Commerce
3 4 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
3 4 (33.33%) Line Management
3 4 (33.33%) SOLID
4 3 (25.00%) Spring Boot
4 3 (25.00%) Public Sector
4 3 (25.00%) Java
4 3 (25.00%) Spring
4 3 (25.00%) Git
4 3 (25.00%) Microservices
4 3 (25.00%) Docker
5 2 (16.67%) DevOps
5 2 (16.67%) AngularJS
5 2 (16.67%) Jenkins
5 2 (16.67%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (16.67%) Amazon S3
5 2 (16.67%) Azure
5 2 (16.67%) REST
5 2 (16.67%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (16.67%) SC Cleared
5 2 (16.67%) Security Cleared

Lead Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 4 (33.33%) AWS
2 2 (16.67%) Amazon EC2
2 2 (16.67%) Amazon S3
2 2 (16.67%) Azure
3 1 (8.33%) Amazon SQS
3 1 (8.33%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (16.67%) Amazon Aurora
1 2 (16.67%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (8.33%) DynamoDB
2 1 (8.33%) Oracle Database
2 1 (8.33%) Power BI
2 1 (8.33%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 3 (25.00%) Git
2 2 (16.67%) Jenkins
2 2 (16.67%) Maven
3 1 (8.33%) JUnit
3 1 (8.33%) Mockito
3 1 (8.33%) SonarQube
General
1 6 (50.00%) Games
2 3 (25.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (8.33%) Finance
3 1 (8.33%) Retail
3 1 (8.33%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (25.00%) Spring
1 3 (25.00%) Spring Boot
2 2 (16.67%) ActiveMQ
2 2 (16.67%) AngularJS
2 2 (16.67%) REST
2 2 (16.67%) SOAP
3 1 (8.33%) .NET
3 1 (8.33%) Bootstrap
3 1 (8.33%) JPA
3 1 (8.33%) jQuery
3 1 (8.33%) Kafka
3 1 (8.33%) React
3 1 (8.33%) Spring Cloud
3 1 (8.33%) Unity (Game Engine)
3 1 (8.33%) Vue
3 1 (8.33%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1 (8.33%) Augmented Reality
1 1 (8.33%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (8.33%) e-Learning
1 1 (8.33%) Mobile App
1 1 (8.33%) Self-Motivation
1 1 (8.33%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 1 (8.33%) Linux
1 1 (8.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (50.00%) Agile
1 6 (50.00%) Mentoring
1 6 (50.00%) TDD
2 5 (41.67%) Software Engineering
3 4 (33.33%) E-Commerce
3 4 (33.33%) Line Management
3 4 (33.33%) SOLID
3 4 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
3 4 (33.33%) Unit Testing
4 3 (25.00%) Microservices
5 2 (16.67%) DevOps
5 2 (16.67%) Scrum
6 1 (8.33%) BDD
6 1 (8.33%) Biometrics
6 1 (8.33%) Business Intelligence
6 1 (8.33%) Performance Metrics
6 1 (8.33%) Project Planning
6 1 (8.33%) Risk Management
6 1 (8.33%) Stakeholder Management
6 1 (8.33%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 4 (33.33%) PHP
2 3 (25.00%) Java
3 2 (16.67%) C#
3 2 (16.67%) JavaScript
3 2 (16.67%) SQL
4 1 (8.33%) C
4 1 (8.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 1 (8.33%) PL/SQL
4 1 (8.33%) Python
4 1 (8.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 2 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (33.33%) QA
System Software
1 3 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (8.33%) Grafana
1 1 (8.33%) Kubernetes
1 1 (8.33%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1 (8.33%) Databricks
1 1 (8.33%) Google
1 1 (8.33%) Oracle